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Heather’s extensive experience and dedication to excellence make her a standout in the real estate industry. Her deep roots in Kawartha Lakes, combined with her award-winning service, ensure clients receive top-tier support throughout their real estate journey.

Heather is a highly accomplished REALTOR® with 12 years of experience, consistently ranking as a top producer. As a long-time resident of Kawartha Lakes, she has helped many clients successfully buy and sell properties, delivering a seamless and personalized real estate experience.

With a strong background in retail and management spanning 23 years, Heather brings exceptional communication and organizational skills to every transaction. She ensures that her clients feel confident and well-informed throughout the entire process. Her dedication to excellence has earned her prestigious accolades, including the RE/MAX Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement Career Awards, solidifying her reputation as a leader in the industry.

Beyond real estate, Heather is deeply committed to her community. She actively gives back, supporting local initiatives and making a meaningful impact in the place she proudly calls home. Whether buying or selling, Heather’s clients trust her for expert guidance, outstanding service, and results that exceed expectations.

Co-Founder/Artistic Director.

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Sean is a co-founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning Intrepid Theatre Company, based in San Diego, California. Founded in 2009, Intrepid earned a reputation as one of the top theaters in San Diego. Among other honours, the company received the San Diego Critics Circle’s most prestigious award, “Best Dramatic Production,” three years in a row (an unprecedented achievement for the Critics Circle). Alongside their mainstage productions, Intrepid featured a vibrant and robust education department, which includes summer camp and after-school classes for children ages 6-17 (attended by over 500 children per year) and community outreach programs for youth in underrepresented communities. Sean was Director/Co-Creator of Intrepid’s Shakespeare For A New Generation program, a Shakespeare school tour that has brought live performances of Shakespeare plays and interactive workshops to more than 100,000 students across Southern California since its inception. Sean has worked with a number of theatres including Idaho, Texas, and Nevada Shakespeare Festivals, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, Los Angeles Repertory, PCPA Theatrefest, San Diego Repertory, and is an Associate Artist with North Coast Repertory, Cygnet Theatre, and Lambs Players Theatre. Selected directing credits: The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, King John, An Enemy Of The People, The Glass Menagerie, and Twelfth Night. Acting credits include title roles in Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard II, and The Elephant Man. Television/Film credits include ER, 24, CSI Miami, Hello Lonesome, The Holiday and Bobby with Anthony Hopkins and Martin Sheen. Education: Pacific Conservatory Of The Performing Arts, The Globe Theatre in London England.

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Lynne Manning is the Chair of the Fenelon Falls Downtown Revitalization and a Member of the Downtown Revitalization Advisory Committee. As Board Chair, she feels that The Grove Theatre project aligns perfectly in energizing economic development, business collaboration and tourism, and provides a unique outdoor entertainment venue for the community. 

Lynne is the former Managing Director of Kelly Services Canada, an International Employment Company, with 55 offices across Canada. Lynne formerly served as a Board Member of the Public Policy Forum, is the former Chair, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, also serving as the Chair of the Fund Development Committee, and the former Chair of Fund Development for Women’s Resources.

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Sue Milling, a long-time local summer resident with family roots in Lindsay, is thrilled to join the Board in further developing the vision of the Grove Theatre as a centre of entertainment and learning.

Sue brings a love of live theatre and the power of storytelling as well as experience in the entertainment industry.

Past Executive Director of ACTRA Toronto and Co-Chair of FilmOntario, Sue assisted three presidents, councils and staff through transformative and challenging times, including the #MeToo movement in 2017, Black Lives Matter in 2020 and helped the industry and union adapt quickly to the COVID pandemic. Sue is currently working as a consultant.

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Born in Scotland, David came to Canada in 1975 to pursue a master’s degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. It was there that he met his future wife, Barbara, and once they’d done a show together, there was no going back.

After a brief stint as an actor and publicist with Theatre 5 in Kingston, David was hired by Canada’s oldest daily newspaper, The Whig-Standard. Over the next 14 years, he won five Nathan Cohen Awards for theatre criticism, three National Newspaper Awards for critical and editorial writing, and a Centre for Investigative Journalism Award for his secret mission to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan – a story recounted in full in his 1986 book Out of Afghanistan.

In 1991, he was awarded a Southam Fellowship to study at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, and in 1994 he left journalism to join the staff of the Stratford Festival. As Literary and Editorial Director, he oversaw the festival’s vast range of day-to-day communications, as well as its commemorative coffee-table books Fifty Seasons at Stratford (2002) and Stratford Behind the Scenes (2012). In 2007 he ghost-wrote former Artistic Director Richard Monette’s book of memoirs, This Rough Magic.

David also appeared in and directed a handful of dramatic readings at the festival, including three scripts of his own devising. By the time he retired in 2020, he had also won a sizable following with his pre-show “Lobby Talks” and as a host and moderator of panels and other ancillary events.

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Mike spent his summers at his family’s cottage in Fenelon Falls. During high school he coordinated amateur and professional live theater productions. Mike began his career in Toronto and then spent 20 years in New York City as head of the Global Media & Sports Practice for a leading executive search firm. He built boards and leadership teams for major entertainment and sports clients, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros, Universal Music, Corus, the NFL, NASCAR, and the NBA.

After returning to Canada in 2021, he and his family chose the Kawarthas as their permanent home. He’s excited to reconnect with the community and honoured to join the Grove Theatre team.

Co-Founder/Treasurer.

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Tim Wisener is co-owner of Home by Tim + Chris, a full-service interior design firm located in Fenelon Falls, as well as proprietor of Colborne Street Gallery. He is a significant contributor to the vitality of the Fenelon Falls area, where he spent his summers growing up. Tim has a rich history in the performing arts as Associate Producer of Canadian Stage, Manager of Development of Opera Lyra Ottawa, Director of Client and Patron Service for EPCOR Center for the Performing Arts, and Manager of Artistic Operations for the Alberta Ballet.

Co-Founder/Executive Director.

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Christy Yael is the co-founder and Artistic Directors of the award-winning Intrepid Theatre Company, based in San Diego, California. Founded in 2009, Intrepid earned a reputation as one of the top theaters in San Diego. Among other honours, the company received the San Diego Critics Circle’s most prestigious award, “Best Dramatic Production,” three years in a row (an unprecedented achievement for the Critics Circle), and Christy was awarded “Best Director” three years in a row (another first in Critics Circle history). Alongside their mainstage productions, Christy has also created a vibrant and robust education department, which includes summer camp and after-school classes for children ages 6-17 (attended by over 500 children per year); community outreach programs for youth in underrepresented communities (in recent years this included Exiled Voices, a program for teens who are recent refugees, and Perform Peace, a program working with Somali Muslim youth); and a Shakespeare school tour that has brought live performances of Shakespeare plays to more than 100,000 students across Southern California since its inception. Christy is a Canadian, raised in Toronto and spent her summers growing up in Fenelon Falls. She moved to California in 2001 and has recently brought her family back to the community that she loves.